LeonhartFour posted...
When discussing the future of the contests, I think sometimes Allen tries too hard to keep the contests "fresh." I feel like he may think that he has to keep mixing things up in order to "sustain" interest, even though we've seen that people still care enough to vote in straightforward Character Battles and Games Contest. We've also seen these "specialized" contest ideas haven't turned out all that great overall either.
I don't have a problem with trying to innovate, or tweak the formula... I think SB does have a point about people getting burned out on the "same old, same old," so new formats could help to sustain interest or create new Contest fans. I just think that if he set up an alternating schedule, we'd get the best of both worlds. Like if next Summer we had a full 128 Game Contest, and then in the Winter we did a little mini-Contest for something new (maybe Best Console Ever). In Summer 2013 we could run the All Fictional Character Battle, do something unique again at the end of the year, and then by 2014 we'd all be ready to see something cool with Games again.
None of the burnout, all of the freshness!
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